CENTENNIAL RELEASES
Recordings|Films|Books|Prints
NEW RECORDINGS
NOTE OF HOPE
Rob Wasserman with Van Dyke Parks, Madeleine Peyroux, Lou Reed, Tom Morello, Michael Franti, Kurt Elling, Ani Difranco, Studs Terkel, Nellie McKay, Chris Whitley, Pete Seeger, Tony Trischka, and Jackson Browne
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Release date: September 27, 2011
Record label: 429 Records
NEW MULTITUDES
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Release date: February 28, 2012
Record label: Rounder Records
WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Release date: July 10, 2012
Record label: Smithsonian Folkways Records
MERMAID AVENUE: THE COMPLETE SESSIONS
Volumes I, II & III
plus the "Man In The Sand" DVD
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Release date: April 21, 2012
Record label: Nonesuch Records
MY NAME IS NEW YORK
Narrated by Nora Guthrie
with audio by Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Mary Guthrie Boyle, Sonny Terry, Josh White, Marjorie Guthrie,
Leadbelly, Tiny Robinson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Dylan,
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir,
Mike + Ruthy, Lowry Hamner, Arlo Guthrie and others
Release date: TBA 2012
Record label: Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
1913 MASSACRE Documentary
Inspired by a Woody Guthrie Song – A Story of Greed and the Ruin It Brought to an American Town
Produced and Directed by: Ken Ross & Louis V. Galdieri
Time: 65 minutes
1913 Massacre follows singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie to the town of Calumet, a once-thriving mining town on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula still haunted by the tragic events that inspired Woody Guthrie’s ballad, ’1913 Massacre.’
On December 24, 1913, the striking copper miners of Calumet were gathered with their wives and children for a holiday party at the Italian Hall. After the festivities had begun, someone — to this day, no one knows who — yelled Fire!
Despite efforts to keep the Hall under control, panic took hold of the crowd. The miners, their wives and children made a mad rush for the stairs. In the ensuing chaos, seventy-four people were crushed and suffocated to death on the stairway. Fifty-nine of the dead were children. There was no fire.
In the version of events that found its way into Woody Guthrie’s song, the “copper-boss thug-men” had plotted to yell Fire! and were holding the door of Italian Hall shut, so that the miners and their families could not escape.
The town itself is still divided over exactly what happened. And no one can explain why they tore down the Italian Hall in 1984.
1913 Massacre captures the last living witnesses of the 1913 tragedy and reconstructs Calumet’s past from individual memories, family legends and songs, tracing the legacy of the tragedy to the present day, when the town –out of work, out of money, out of luck — still struggles to come to terms with this painful episode from its past.
Time: 65 min.
For Screening Permissions contact:
E: Producers@1913Massacre.com
Official Website - About the Film
1913 Massacre Trailer from Louis V. Galdieri on Vimeo
EXCLUSIVE!
WOODY GUTHRIE CENTENNIAL
PRINT
BY SHEPARD FAIREY
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
To mark Woody's centennial, artist, Shepard Fairey created this special Screen Print. Signed and numbered, limited edition of 450 prints.
* All proceeds go to support the Woody Guthrie Foundation
NEW BOOKS |
MY NAME IS NEW YORK
Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's New York Town;
A Walking GuideAvailable now at The Woody Guthrie
Author: Nora Guthrie & The Woody Guthrie Archives
Release date: June 26, 2012
Publisher: PowerHouse Books
Website: www.MyNameisNY.com
EVERY 100 YEARS SONGBOOK
100 years ~ 100 songs
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Release Date: February, 2012
Publisher: TRO~The Richmond Organization
RIDING IN MY CAR
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Author: Woody Guthrie
Illustrated by: Scott Menchin
Release date: March 27, 2012
Publisher: Little Brown & Co.
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
Woody Guthrie and the Journey of the American Folk Song
Available now at The Woody Guthrie Store
Author: Robert Santelli
Release date: March, 2012
Publisher: Running Press
WOODY GUTHRIE: WRITING AMERICA'S SONGS
Author: Ron Cohen
Release date: July, 2012
Publisher:
Routledge
HARD HITTING SONGS FOR HARD HIT PEOPLE Songbook
Author: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger & Alan Lomax
Release date: September, 2012
Publisher: University of Nebraska
WOODY GUTHRIE'S WARDY FORTY
Greystone Park State Hospital Revisited
Author: Phillip Buehler
In collaboration with Nora Guthrie & the Woody Guthrie Archives
Book design: Steven Brower
Publisher: Woody Guthrie Publications
Release date: TBA